Dr. Iapadre, Lelio
P. Lelio Iapadre is an Associate Research Fellow at UNU-CRIS since 2006. He obtained a PhD in Economics at the University of Rome “Sapienza”.
He is Chair of the HPC4DR (High-Performance Computing for Disaster Resilience) Consortium based at the University of L’Aquila, where he was Professor of Applied Economics and Prorector and Delegate for Sustainable Development. He is member of the Scientific Board in the PhD in Markets and Institutions for Development and Innovation, Sapienza University of Rome.
He is a member of the Interdisciplinary Evaluation Expert Group (GEV) for the VQR 2020-2024 of the National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research System (ANVUR). He is a consultant to the Special Office for the Reconstruction of the Municipalities of the Crater (USRC), based in Fossa (AQ), Italy. He is a member of the Manlio Rossi-Doria Economic and Social Research Center of the University of Roma Tre, a Scientific Advisor to the Centro Europa Ricerche (CER) in Rome, and a Member of the Council, Bank of Italy, L'Aquila branch office.
He is Member of the Assembly in the Forum on Inequality and Diversity (ForumDD).
He is member of the Italian delegation in the OECD Committee on Industry, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Working Party on Industry Analysis), in the OECD Trade Committee, in the OECD Expert Group on Measuring Economic Globalization (EG-MEG) and in the Task Force for the OECD Green Growth & Sustainable Development Forum. He is Member of the World Economic Survey Expert Group, IFO Institute, University of Münich.
He taught at the University of Rome “Sapienza”, at the University of L’Aquila, at the LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, at the Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Bologna Center, and at SciencesPo, Menton. For UNU-CRIS he taught at the UNECA Training Course on Measurement and Modelling in International Trade and Regional Integration, at the 3rd Summer School on Comparative Regionalism "Regionalism and Crisis Mitigation: A Multidisciplinary Approach", and at the Doctoral School on Asian and Comparative Regionalism, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia.
He was the scientific editor of the Italian Trade Agency’s annual report “Italy in the International Economy”. He served as chief economist in the National Institute of Foreign Trade (ICE) and as an advisor to the Italian Minister of Foreign Trade. He also acted as a consultant for Istat, Svimez, the Bangladesh Institute for Development Studies and several international institutions, including the European Commission, OECD, UNCTAD, UNIDO, and the World Bank Institute.
